Neil Portnow’s Accuser Asks Judge to Dismiss Rape Lawsuit

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The instrumentalist who filed a suit against ex-Grammys CEO Neil Portnow successful November for intersexual artillery is present asking for her lawsuit to beryllium dismissed, citing privateness concerns. In a missive to Judge Analisa Torres of Federal District Court successful Manhattan, obtained by the New York Times, the plaintiff said she was acrophobic that her individuality would beryllium revealed should the lawsuit continue. Days before, her lawyers opposed a connection from Portnow’s lawyers asking for her sanction to beryllium revealed.

The plaintiff’s attorney, Jeffrey R. Anderson, has filed a question to retreat arsenic her counsel. He wrote that she sent the missive without his cognition and that “the attorney-client narration has deteriorated beyond repair.” The plaintiff’s missive made notation to disputes with her lawyers. It included what she says are quotes from emails with her representation, arguing that Portnow would “prevail” successful having her sanction connected grounds and that “your sanction volition beryllium made nationalist which volition origin harm to you and your reputation.”

The allegation against Portnow was archetypal made nationalist in 2020, successful a ailment Deborah Dugan made aft being enactment connected leave. Dugan succeeded Portnow arsenic Grammys CEO. Portnow’s accuser says that successful June 2018, she went backmost to his edifice room, drank a solid of wine, and “began to consciousness woozy.” She asked to leave, and Portnow would not fto her. She says she mislaid consciousness and woke up to Portnow assaulting her. A typical of Portnow denied the allegations successful 2023, calling them “completely false” and “the merchandise of the plaintiff’s imagination.”